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Posted on May 15, 2018 · Houston musician Mary Griffin talks about how she got into music, how Hurricane Katrina derailed some of her plans, and how a chance to work with singer Christina Aguilera turned her life around.

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Posted on June 22, 2017 · Acclaimed singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle followed his famous father Steve Earle into the music business, playing first in his father’s band, The Dukes, before signing with Bloodshot Records in 2007 as a solo Americana/folk/country artist. Earle recently visited Houston Public Media to record a couple songs for an upcoming edition of Skyline Sessions before a […]

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Posted on May 24, 2017 · Back in 1976, Houstonian Bobby Bridger recorded his Americana masterpiece Seekers of the Fleece. It’s the sort of album nobody makes anymore: a concept album, built around the tale of one man, in this case frontiersman Jim Bridger, who signed on with a fur expedition in 1822 and then lived nearly 60 years more as […]

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Posted on March 15, 2017 · On Thursday night (March 16, 2017), singer and pianist Ben Folds performs with the Houston Symphony. Folds will perform his acclaimed Concerto for Piano and Orchestra along with some orchestral arrangements of his hits and pieces from his latest album So There. Craig Cohen talks with Folds about his music and his performance with the symphony.

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Posted on October 27, 2016 · Houston musician Mary Griffin talks about how she got into music, how Hurricane Katrina derailed some of her plans, and how a chance to work with singer Christina Aguilera turned her life around. This segment was produced by Houston Public Media’s Abner Fletcher.

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Posted on September 23, 2016 · Houston Matters listeners will know Jeff Balke from his weekly updates on Houston sports each Monday and his writing for Houstonia Magazine and Houston Press. However, in his other life, he’s also a musician. We learn about his musical influences as a bass player and why he opted for a career in journalism and web development […]

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Posted on September 6, 2016 · Musician John Paul White is the singer-songwriter behind the duo The Civil Wars. Now, three years after that group broke up, White has released his first solo album since 2009, called Beulah, after the realm of poetic inspiration in the mythology of poet and philosopher William Blake. John Paul White recently visited Houston Public Media’s […]

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Posted on June 28, 2016 · Houston musician Mary Griffin talks about how she got into music, how Hurricane Katrina derailed some of her plans, and how a chance to work with singer Christina Aguilera turned her life around. This segment was produced by Houston Public Media’s Abner Fletcher.

Family Business

Posted on May 19, 2015 · From time to time, we talk with Houstonians who have followed in previous generations’ footsteps about the opportunities and challenges inherent in going into the family business. Today, Maggie Martin talks with Allyson Wells who, like her father, became a musician. Her father, Arnold Brown, played viola and owned a piano store when she was a child. […]

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Posted on December 16, 2014 · Country musician Robert Earl Keen brings his annual holiday concert to the House of Blues on Dec. 26. The show, âMerry Christmas from the Family,â centers around Keenâs popular song of the same name. He tells Houston Mattersâ Michael Hagerty about the Christmas show, about his new album Happy Prisoner, which is a collection of […]